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Originally Posted by GenKreton
UPS actually use a surprising amount of power. During normal operation. Can you get a sunfrost without the UPS? Up north the power only goes out in the winter ice storms generally and then we can just move the food outside  Just a few things like mayonnaise freeze and shouldn't. |
No, the UPS on their fridges are an extra option that you can get, their standard fridge is just super efficent, pretty simple, and well built by real people! I've talked to the owner a number of times and he told me they used to offer an option of a heat pipe for cooling in cold climets, but that people didn't understand it so no one wanted to pay extra for it.
We got our sunfrost in 1987, and it's still in use, and as effecent or more so then alot of what you can get today.
The nice thing about the plug in meters is that you can leave something like your TV or cell phone charger pluged in to it for a few days or a week, and then look at the total hours it was monitering, and the total power used, my cell charger draws less then a watt, but it's hard to tell over a short chunk of time.